title: The natural history of strawberry naevi.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The field of dermatology was developed by clinicians with keen observational skills, who identified the natural history of clinical conditions through morphologic features.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article reviews the 1938 article published by Lister in which the natural history of hemangiomas are reviewed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Lister concluded "that drastic measures for the destruction of these naevi are inadvisable and treatment should be expectant and conservative." With the advent of new laser treatments for hemangiomas, early aggressive treatment is suggested for a subgroup of these problems. However, it still holds true in 1997 that for many of these smaller lesions, treatment should be "expectant and conservative."
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D006391:Hemangioma / Q000266:history* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous